Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!ames!skipper!elxsi!maine From: maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: another side effect question Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 90 15:50:02 GMT References: <2068@bnlux0.bnl.gov> Sender: news@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 25 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 20 Aug 90 16:31:58 GMT On 20 Aug 90 16:31:58 GMT, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) said: Peter> Speaking of internal I/O, how come you can't do list-directed formatting Peter> in an internal I/O statement (or, if you can, how long has this been Peter> true so I can bitch to a vendor)? Somebody else (I think Karl Hurchert (sp?)) touched on the whys before. As for the rest of your question, it isn't legal yet, but it is legal in the proposed Fortran 90 standard. Ask your favorite religious advisor for guesses as to when Fortran 90 will be an "official" standard. Current guesses seem to range from the end of 1990 (for an ISO standard; no hope of ANSI ratification by then) to infinity. So if you want to bitch at a vendor, you can bitch at them about whether they have started work on a Fortran 90 compiler and how soon they project release. Several vendors do claim to be working on Fortran 90 compilers already (at least they say so when I bitch at them), so I'd say you are justified in kicking yours if they aren't. Squeek loudly enough and maybe we'll get "greased" (choose any of several possible interpretations :-)). -- Richard Maine maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov [130.134.64.6]